Taking the plunge


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I’m going dark for a little while as my blog goes through a magical transformation known as a “redesign”. 


Hopefully, when it’s done, I’ll be on WordPress, with a header that fits across the middle, and all my links, your witty comments and my award-winning photos will still be intact. 


And then I’ll get to learn how to publish to WordPress. Hold me.


In the meantime, enjoy your April and hope to see you on your sites, Facebook, or even in real life! –Christina



Wordless Wednesday: visiting the Easter Bunny, 1969

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still gives me chills—look at those scary eyes!

Fun (and history) with Peeps



After seeing the Peeps dioramas in the Washington Post, the kids were dying to make their own crafty-sweet versions. I agreed to let them go wild, under one condition: They had to make a scene depicting something we’d covered so far this year in history. And we got their two friends who do history with them involved too. 


I think what they came up with is pretty great. . .


Columbus sailing to the New World by my son, age 7:

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Here are the native people waiting for his arrival:

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Poor Verrazano meeting an unfortunate end with a bunch of hungry cannibals, by my friend’s son, age 8 (I love him in the pot over the fire!):

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Pocahontas saving John Smith, by my friend’s daughter, age 11:

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Pilgrims working hard on their new land, by Jilly, age 9:

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And, finally, the Salem Witch Trials, by Belly, age 11:

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(look at the poor googly-eyed “witch”!)



And, yes, many Peeps were harmed in the making of these scenes. (burp)